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Cuddy

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Jefferson’s granddaughters nicknamed the Cuddy after a small nook on a ship. These two young women, desperate for privacy in a house overcrowded with nearly 30 people, set it up as a sitting room. Writing of their space, Virginia Randolph explained: “breathing through a broken pane of glass and some wide cracks in the floor, I have taken possession with the dirt daubers, wasps & humble bees; and do not intend to give it up to any thing but the formidable rats which have not yet found out this fairy palace.”